COMMENT | I was trained by a black-dominant university with a handful of lecturers from India, local whites from the West Indies and some Trinidadian Indian lecturers. In my whole medical training, I had only encountered two Chinese Jamaican lecturers.

My alma mater the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) MBBS programme was recognised by the UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) for direct registration until 1998 when new EU regulations were introduced to accommodate medical doctors from other EU countries.

During my days as a medical student, the GMC came